Aetas (Latin for age), a journal of history and
related disciplines was founded by young historians in Szeged, Hungary, in
1985. Its original aim was to provide a menas for the diffusion of current
historical scholarship in Central and Eastern Europe and at the same time,
a forum for younger historians in the region. Accordingly, AETAS is
structured somewhat differently from other Hugnarian historical journals:
its features new sections and follows different editorial principles.

Workshops

The editorial board puts special emphasis on
disseminating the work of ongoing research projects by publishing thematic
issues. Examples in the past have included Slavic society in the Middle
Ages, public opinion and propaganda in the modern age, Romanian
intellectual history, the age of neo-absolutism in the Austrian Empire,
and emigration in 19th and 20th century Europe.

Sections and focal points

Studies: Each issue contains five or six
articles with abstracts in English.

Beyond our borders: In this column historians
from abroad are introduced through interviews, representative studies and
bibliographies of their publications.

Evoking the past: historical source material
with scholarly comments is publishes in this section.

Observer: devoted to reviews.

Contributors

In accordance with the objectives of the journal, the
editorial board strives for a plurality of themes and seeks to publish the
widest possible range of authors in Aetas. In recent years, the
contributors have included young historians at the beginning of their
careers as well as distinguished researchers, such as John Komlos, Gabor
Vermes, David F. Good, István Deák, Andrew C. Janos and Janes Ross Sweeney
(United States), Jerzy Kloczowski (Poland), László Péter (England), Susan
Zimmermann, Moritz Csáky and Gerhard Melinz (Austria), Bernard Lepetit,
....... Béranger and Károly Kecskeméthy (France) as well as István
Diószegi, András Kubinyi, Éva Somogyi and Vera Bácskai (Hungary).

Achievements and plan for the future

Due to its innovative design and editorial policy,
AETAS has achieved considerable popularity in Hungarian academic life
during the past fifteen years. The editors are aiming to improve and widen
distribution in and outside of Hungary.

Publication, circulation and distribution

AETAS is published four times a year and features
both the abstracts of the articles and the table of contents in English.
The circulation figure exceeds 700 copies per issue. 200 copies are
purchased by regular subscribers including all the research libraries in
Hungary as well as subscribers from abroad. Additionally, AETAS is
available for purchase at bookshops all over the country.